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Libraries - Candida Hoefer (Hardcover)
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Libraries - Candida Hoefer (Hardcover)
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This striking book shows the world's most beautiful libraries
through Candida Hoefer's mesmerizing photographs. No one
photographs spaces quite like Candida Hoefer and no one has
captured better the majesty, stillness, and eloquence of libraries.
Traveling around the world, Hoefer shows the exquisite beauty to be
found in order, repetition, and form--rows of books, lines of
desks, soaring shelves, and even stacks of paper create patterns
that are both hypnotic and soothing. Photographed with a
large-format camera and a small aperture, these razor-sharp images
of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the Escorial in Spain,
Villa Medici in Rome, the Hamburg University library, the
Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Museo
Archeologico in Madrid, to name a few, communicate more than just
the superb architecture. Glowing with subtle color and natural
light, Hoefer's photographs, while devoid of people, shimmer with
life and remind us again and again that libraries are more than
just repositories for books. Umberto Eco's essay about his own
attachment to libraries is the perfect introduction to an otherwise
wordless, but sublimely reverent journey.
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